I look and I look and I look. I’ve taking the drawing apart over and over again, and the only thing I can find, maybe the monkey is suppose to be just a monkey, as in “dance monkey”, a reference to a puppet. Bush signed a stimulus bill and now Obama is talking about writing a new one. Maybe he IS a “monkey” in the terms of being a puppet, and not as in the derogative way people are depicting the cartoon. I want to say that it’s just a blatantly racist cartoon, but it’s hard (but not impossible) to believe that some one would publish such a horrid and racist piece like this in this day. Just to clarify, I’m not defending the drawing; I just like to discuss both sides of the story.
I believe that depending on how you look at the cartoon (people's different views) determines wheter or not you think the cartoon is racist. For one part, the monkey in the cartoon can just represent that, a monkey. It doesn't necessarily have to make reference to anything, or represent something or someone. On the other hand, the caption that the cartoon has can make it racist against the president. Because like Armando said if Bush signed a stimulus bill and now Obama is planning on writting a new one, the monkey could have been drawn to represent the president.
I look and I look and I look. I’ve taking the drawing apart over and over again, and the only thing I can find, maybe the monkey is suppose to be just a monkey, as in “dance monkey”, a reference to a puppet. Bush signed a stimulus bill and now Obama is talking about writing a new one. Maybe he IS a “monkey” in the terms of being a puppet, and not as in the derogative way people are depicting the cartoon. I want to say that it’s just a blatantly racist cartoon, but it’s hard (but not impossible) to believe that some one would publish such a horrid and racist piece like this in this day. Just to clarify, I’m not defending the drawing; I just like to discuss both sides of the story.
ReplyDeleteI believe that depending on how you look at the cartoon (people's different views) determines wheter or not you think the cartoon is racist. For one part, the monkey in the cartoon can just represent that, a monkey. It doesn't necessarily have to make reference to anything, or represent something or someone. On the other hand, the caption that the cartoon has can make it racist against the president. Because like Armando said if Bush signed a stimulus bill and now Obama is planning on writting a new one, the monkey could have been drawn to represent the president.
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